As an employment agency, Integrated Staffing has encountered situations of potential unemployment claim fraud.  The following is taken directly from the government website: When someone collects unemployment insurance (UI) benefits by lying to the Department of Labor, he or she is committing fraud.  We take UI...

Following up on our previous blog, which discussed the latest jobs report, here are a few statistics from the latest unemployment report.  This report was published in March 2015. So where does New York stand?  We are in 31st place, tied with Florida and Alabama. Here’s how...

Here is the latest jobs report, as posted today, on USA Today. Milder weather helped the labor market shake off a winter chill in April as employers added 223,000 jobs.  The unemployment rate fell from 5.5% to 5.4%, lowest since May 2008. Economists surveyed by Action Economics expected...